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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since your father only lives 2 hours away, go pick him up and bring him back to your house to stay with you for a week. No need to leave your baby for an entire week when he lives so close. This is sounding a little off.  I mean this kindly OP, is it possible you are suffering from PPD and want to get away from your baby?[/quote]

OP here. I’m not suffering from PPD. I love being with my baby, but one week won’t do any harm. He is in capable hands with his father. My dads house is well equipped for his issues, and ours is not. That is why we won’t have him at our place. [/quote]

Honestly, this was my feeling, too. I would not have been able to leave my 8-week old baby, not even for a day, let alone a week. OP, just recognize it's a little bit unusual that you're okay doing this. And it is kind of symptom of PPD.[/quote]

That’s you! Many people are back to work by then. I felt like a jerk because I went back to work at 12 weeks and I was excited! Babies are BORING. Now I actually really hate leaving overnight now that my kids are toddlers so I’m certainly not an absentee parent and prefer family time than girls trips for now but leaving my 8 week old in my very capable husbands hands, to help my Ill father, would have been a no brained not a sign of ppd.[/quote]

+1.  Some people have a really hard time being away from their babies.  Some don't.  It doesn't mean you have PPD if you don't... it just means people are different.

(I'd actually be really curious if the "can't bear to be parted with my baby" mothers overlap with the "a baby needs their mother, you can't just leave them with their father" people as much as I suspect they do...)[/quote]

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